Diversity of voices, diversity of languages : one week of events and readings in Lyon and in the Rhône-Alpes region.
Virginie Despentes
Virginie Despentes © J.F. Paga - Grasset
WRITER / FILMMAKER
France
The author of numerous novels, including Baise-moi (Florent Massot, 1993) and Apocalypse Bébé (Grasset, 2010), she has also written scripts for and directed two movies. Her essay King Kong Théorie (Grasset, 2006) made its mark on feminist literature. She has just published Vernon Subutex, the first volume of a trilogy about a man whose life changes radically when his rock-star friend dies in a hotel room. Virginie Despentes has composed a disturbing tableau of a directionless Parisian community in a disenchanted post-rock society.
